Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2015-558
Advisory Release Date: 2015-07-07 12:33 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2015-07-07 22:26 Pacific
It was discovered that fusermount failed to properly sanitize its environment before executing mount and umount commands. A local user could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.
Affected Packages:
fuse
Issue Correction:
Run yum update fuse to update your system.
i686:
fuse-debuginfo-2.9.4-1.17.amzn1.i686
fuse-devel-2.9.4-1.17.amzn1.i686
fuse-2.9.4-1.17.amzn1.i686
fuse-libs-2.9.4-1.17.amzn1.i686
src:
fuse-2.9.4-1.17.amzn1.src
x86_64:
fuse-devel-2.9.4-1.17.amzn1.x86_64
fuse-debuginfo-2.9.4-1.17.amzn1.x86_64
fuse-2.9.4-1.17.amzn1.x86_64
fuse-libs-2.9.4-1.17.amzn1.x86_64